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Has anyone fished Mill pool please ? I am just started getting together some tackle and getting advice. Anyone know what is the best rig and setup please ?

Bobby's lakes are near there (Bobby George, ex Darts player now pundit) he had some lakes up that way

You can get some different types of pellet powder off the shelf, trout, halibut, bloodworm, carp, etc personally I think if the point is to use hydrolysates I would use a lower oil content powder as that would absorb more of the good stuff. You could always just glug pellets in hydro though they can take a lot of liquid on board. That's what I do quite often.

Maybe I should try it but I was thinking about a cereal bait flavoured with hydrolysates simply (all organic) semolina, quinoa flakes, wheatgerm, millet or rye flakes etc. I would only feed it in very small quantities as it would be dense, heavy and filling I also like the idea of a four or so equal part mix so I don't have endless little bags everywhere of randomn amounts of product getting old in cupboards old flavours are another kettle of worms, I see people selling ancient flavours on ebay and feel its illegal or certainly should be!

Might do mate but if I do it will be super duper koi food, not just coarse pellet powder I might look into some deeper advice about ground dog food of very high quality, get somebody to grind for me or use something else like insect meal I do use some coarse pellets (Dynamite) - they are coated by them and have lashings of glug as well by me - but I don't really trust the cheap price of common coarse pellets - maybe I'm a bit of a bait snob lol Mind you the pellets get the swim buzzing so who am I to argue with their effectiveness - I wish somebody made organic coarse pellets available for us to use for fishing- organic fish-farm food is only available for trade in massive bulk or from abroad

I just use fantastic clip lock type heavy duty tupperwares for my bait they were a great investment I have loads of them - and the best way to contain frozen food since forever you have to look after them, get the rubbers out of the lids sometimes and don't let moisture build up under the rubbers and store them airing out, never with lids clipped on they must always be washed before use as they are coated with antibac for pre-sale storage to be fair the 'K'ontainers look quite neat, but so is my NGT zip up canvas insulated bait bag full of small tupperwares and tubs

I Kwould Kontane it in a Kbin Just messing I'm not a fan of Korda

What about buying a pellet powder so you don't have the faff?

I also got tired of blitzing pet biscuits in my beautiful Ninja processor they are hard work once you reach a certain stage they mound up and the powerful blades are quickly spinning dry I will if anything be using flours and meals already done in future but it feels a bit pointless there are so many excellent pastes out there to try which are already scientifically and/or artfully designed for catching carp plus TESTED like mad

Thing is different dry dog foods, different protein quantities and obviously ingredients. I will only use dog food crumb in groundbait. By law, every bait containing GM ingredients has to declare it. The threshold is if the ingredient is 0.9% or less of the bait. This to do with animal food legislation which bait is now classified under. I know Dynamite Baits have made this a headline within the bait industry.

The only luck will be if the birdlife leave me alone.

Any luck ?

I hope you’ll be happy with your choice 👍 I do like 10ft length rods Iv got a set of ESP Quick draw rods in 3.5 lb which in hindsight were to powerful in 10ft as someone on here rightly mentioned could have been Kev ? The 3lb would have been perfect. 😏 Now ESP are bringing out a 4k version all in 10ft so il be selling off the other rods and getting a set in 3lb ….after a good waggle in the shop

Trouble with DIY is it’s easy to make something rubbish, heavy and unsuitable for carp That conscientiousness tended to spoil my bait making adventures But I wish the multi million industry would use higher quality ingredients such as non factory eggs and organic non GM etc I was very shocked to find out a “highly regarded” big name old school ingredient supplier uses GM ingredients in their mixes we are talking BIG name who supplies EVERYONE

Will you be mentioning that one is 8ft 11 inch ? 😉

That was 4 hours worth that my daughter caught, nothing that big yet but we were just bashing them out on the whip, might get the match rod out this year and try further out for some bigger ones, I do quite enjoy watching a float sometimes.

Would it have worked better if you used less dog biscuit crumb and more of something else do you think ?

Is that Earith? The shoals of rudd on there I used to see. I ended with a couple over 2lb.

You can splice a number of braids, from the original Kesmark Octosplice, Kryston Merlin, SuperNova, even the various ESP braids. It takes no longer to splice than tying a knot, and I can do it on the bank. As I have mentioned, those made with Dyneema are the problem, it is thinner than Spectra. Bit of a contradiction

PB products? I prefer to keep things simple mate I’m a bit of a dinosaur from 1990 lol Im on quite a thin braid which was no good on soft mouthed fish but (unlike many) I actually use my medi kits and the fish healed in a couple of months I saw a recapture the second I see damage again it’s going in the bin Other than that I have good old unstripped tungsten loaded rigs in the bag to fall back on at all times

Dog.. lol damn iPhone spellcheck

I just didn’t like the texture Elmo mate, I don’t have much time for fishing and got proven, tested paste from a successful firm instead bit of a shame but never mind, I will ditch the dig biscuits and try something else but sometimes it makes sense to trust the experts

Have you ever tried the spliceable hooklinks you can get ? They might be a good alternative to braid.

I am hoping they do another rudd match at the syndicate this year, loved it last time, and we got to stock them in their new home, The pest pond 😂

Thought i should post the pic of the rods prior to breaking the tip of one, BTW had a repky from Wychwood asking me to take broken rod to local dealer for them to send it back and let them see if it was poor workmanship that caused it but i have repaired it so not going back, i have instead ordered a pair of Rod Hutchinson 10ft rods and will sell on the 9ft Wychwoods